Numbers 11:4
A group of troublemakers among them had such intense food cravings they affected the Israelites who started crying again, asking “Who's going to get us some meat to eat?
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3So that place was named Taberah, because the fire from the Lord burned them.
Cross References
Exodus 16:3“The Lord should've killed us back in Egypt!” the Israelites told them. “At least there we could sit down beside stewpots of meat and eat bread until we were full. But you had to bring all of us out here in the desert to starve us all to death!”
Leviticus 24:10One day a man who had an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went into the Israelite camp and had a fight with an Israelite.
Numbers 14:1Then everybody there cried out loud all night.
Nehemiah 13:3When the people heard about this law, they separated out from Israel everyone who had foreign ancestry.
Psalms 78:20Yes, he can strike a rock so that water gushes out like flowing rivers, but can he give us bread? Can he supply his people with meat?”
Romans 13:14Instead put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and forget about following your sinful desires.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 11:2-4
The Murmurings of the Israelites. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord : and the Lord heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp. 2 And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the Lord , the fire was quenched. 3 And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the Lord burnt among them. Here is, I. The people's sin. They complained, v. 1 . They were,… Read the whole commentary →